This distillation of 20 years of Rowan Williams' pastoral and academic work tackles many of the most searching questions of theology and society at the end of the twentieth century.

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• Collects the work of a prominent writer and serving bishop on the history of Christian theology and spirituality.
  
• Brings together Rowan Williams' theological essays with studies of wider issues from a theological point of view.
  
• Includes an introduction to his work by Bishop Williams.